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True Crime with Elli Mac - The Baby Farmer: Serial Killer Amelia Dyer
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The Baby Farmer: Serial Killer Amelia Dyer

True Crime with Elli Mac

10/24/25

32m

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When a parcel was fished from the River Thames in the spring of 1896, no one expected what was inside.

Wrapped in brown paper, tied with white tape, and weighted with a brick... was the tiny body of a baby girl.

The discovery would set detectives on the trail of a woman once known as kind, gentle — even motherly.

A trained nurse and midwife who dedicated her life to caring for others. Her name was Amelia Dyer.

But when detectives finally stepped inside her home, they came face to face with an overpowering stench of decay. They also stumbled upon piles of baby clothes, adoption letters, and white tape. It was clear something unspeakable had happened there.

Who was Amelia Dyer — a troubled woman lost to madness... or one of the most prolific murderers in British history?

Previous Episode

When 32-year-old Joanne Hill finished her day at work in Chester, England, her mind was already set on what she was going to do.After leaving the office, she collected her four-year-old daughter, Naomi, from the childminder in Connah’s Quay and drove them home.

Once inside, she poured herself a glass of wine and drank it.A few minutes later, Joanne ran her daughter a bath while little Naomi sat in front of the television — completely unaware of the danger she was in.

What happened next was unimaginable.

That night, Joanne Hill did the unthinkable.

Next Episode

It was December 2020 — deep in the middle of France’s COVID lockdown — when 33-year-old Delphine Jubillar vanished from her home in the small town of Cagnac-les-Mines.

Her husband, Cédric, said she had simply disappeared in the night. But investigators quickly began to suspect otherwise.

But there was no body. No blood. No confession. No witness. Just a husband who insisted he was innocent.

By October 2025, five years later, with still no body or trace of Delphine, Cédric Jubillar finally stood trial for his wife’s murder.

But even then, with no physical evidence and no sign of Delphine ever found, two questions remained:

Where was Delphine Jubillar? And how do you convict someone of murder... when there’s no proof a murder ever happened?

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